World Food Books

The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage
by Marjorie Perloff

1993, English
Softcover, 346 pages 21.5 x 13.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Northwestern University Press / Evanston

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In her seminal study, first published in 1981, Marjorie Perloff argues that the map of Modernist poetry needs to be redrawn to include a central tradition which cannot properly be situated within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition dominating the early twentieth century. She traces this tradition from its early "French connection" in the poetry of Rimbaud and Apollinaire as well as in Cubist, Dada, and early Surrealist painting; through its various manifestations in the work of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound; to such postmodern "landscapes without depth" as the French/English language constructions of Samuel Beckett, the elusive dreamscapes of John Ashbery, and the performance works of David Antin and John Cage.

Very Good copy of 1993 second edition.

File under: Guillaume Apollinaire Arthur Rimbaud Gertrude Stein William Carlos Williams Ezra Pound Samuel Beckett John Ashbery David Antin John Cage Northwestern University Press / Evanston Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Fiction / Poetry Dada Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Painting Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Fluxus Poetry

Le Sang et La Rose No. 2, 1969

1969, Japanese / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 2 includes photographic features by Yasuhiro Yoshioka and Yoshihiro Tatsuki, the artwork of French decorator of department store mannequins and surrealist Sunday painter Clovis Trouille, Venus in Furs erotic photo shoot by Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Yokoo Tadanori, Hans Bellmer, Leonor Fini, Alberto Martini, Félicien Rops, Rene Magritte, an incredible feature "Machine for Murder" with art by Hiroshi Nakamura, Tomi Ungerer, Koichi Tanigawa, Osamu Tsukasa, Tatsuo Ikeda, Marcel Duchamp, Seiichi Horiuchi, and others, an article on the erotica of Ukiyo-e with a fold-out colour three panel poster, the fully illustrated museum supplement on Demonology by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa with artworks throughout history, texts by Apollinaire, Burroughs, Mutsuo Takahashi, articles on laws pertaining to homosexuality, Kama Sutra, shoe fetishism, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Very Good copy. Light general tanning/wear.

File under: Yoshihiro Tatsuki Clovis Trouille Tadanori Yokoo Yasuhiro Yoshioka Yokoo Tadanori Hans Bellmer Leonor Fini Alberto Martini Félicien Rops Rene Magritte Hiroshi Nakamura Tomi Ungerer Koichi Tanigawa Osamu Tsukasa Tatsuo Ikeda Marcel Duchamp Seiichi Horiuchi Yasuhiro Ishimoto Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Georges Bataille Mutsuo Takahashi Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Periodicals Eros LGBTQ+ Art Surrealism Counterculture Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica Fetishism / BDSM Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Philosophy Fiction / Poetry Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

Flesh Unlimited: Surrealist Erotica
Guillaume Apollinaire & Louis Aragon

2000, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 21.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Creation Books / London

$80.00 - Out of stock

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Flesh Unlimited is a compendium edition of three classic erotic/surrealist novellas: Les Onze Mille Verges and Les Mémoires d'un Jeune Don Juan by Guillaume Appollinaire and Le Con d'Irène by Louis Aragon. Published by Creation in 2000, translated into English from the original, complete and unexpurgated versions by Alexis Lykiard (translator of Lautréamont's Maldoror), including a general introduction and notes section. Long out-of-print. Cover artwork by Hans Bellmer.

Dadaist poet Guillaume Apollinaire fine-tuned his uniquely poetic and surreal vision to produce these two materpieces of the explicit erotic imagination at the turn of the century, works which compare with the best of the Marquis de Sade. In Les Onze Milles Verges, debauched aristocrat Mony Vibescu and a circle of fellow sybarites blaze a trail of uncontrollable lust, bloody cruelty and depravity across the streets of Europe. Whilst in Les Mémoires d'un Jeune Don Juan, a young man reminisces his sexual awakening at the hands of his aunt, his sister and their friends as he is utterly corrupted in a season of carnal excess.

Louis Aragon's Le Con d'Irène is the intense story of a man's torment when he becomes fixated upon the genitalia of an imaginary woman and is reduced to voyeuristically scoping her erotic encounters in-between describing various events in brothels and other sexual adventures.

Very Good copy.

File under: Hans Bellmer Guillaume Apollinaire Louis Aragon Creation Books / London Surrealism Eros Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Fetishism / BDSM Dada Poetry

Flesh Unlimited
by Guillaume Apollinaire

1997, English
Softcover, 170 pages, 21.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Creation Books / London Velvet Publications / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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1997 Velvet edition of this compendium of two erotic novellas by Dadaist Guillaume Apollinaire, Les Onze Mille Verges and Les Memoires d'Un Jeune Don Juan. Presented in brand new translations by Alexis Lykiard (translator of Lautreamont's Maldoror), these are the original, complete and unexpurgated versions, with full introduction and notes.

The debauched aristocrat Mony Vibescu and a circle of fellow sybarites blaze a trail of uncontrollable lust, cruelty and depravity across the streets of Europe. A young man reminisces his sexual awakening at the hands of his aunt, his sister and their friends as he is irremediably corrupted in a season of carnal excess. Flesh Unlimited is a compendium edition of Les Onze Mille Verges and Les Memoires d'Un Jeune Don Juan, two of the finest examples of wild literary erotica ever produced. Dadaist poet Guillaume Apollinaire fine-tuned his uniquely poetic and surreal vision to produce these two masterpieces of the explicit erotic imagination at the turn of the century, works which compare with the best of the Marquis de Sade.

Good copy with some light wear and rippling to one corner of block.

File under: Guillaume Apollinaire Alexis Lykiard Creation Books / London Velvet Publications / London Surrealism Eros Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Dada

The Anti-Museum : An Anthology

2017, English
Hardcover, 792 pages, 17.3 x 26.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Koenig Books / London

$140.00 - Out of stock

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First edition, out-of-print.

Created by curator Mathieu Copeland and artist Balthazar Lovay, together with a stellar list of contributors, The Anti-Museum presents the first extensive exploration of the radical and paradoxical concept that is ‘the anti-museum’ – a term so present in Art History and yet that has never been the object of an investigation and definition.

The museum is constantly a target for criticism, whether it comes from artists, thinkers, curators, or even the public. From the avant-gardes of the twentieth century up to present day, the museumʼs suspect position has generated countless gestures, iconoclastic actions, scathing attacks, utopias, and alternative exhibition spaces.

For the first time, this anthology is devoted to the anti-museum, through anti-art, the anti-artist, anti-exhibition, as well as anti-architecture, anti-philosophy, anti-religion, anti-cinema and anti-music. This notion (unpatented but regularly reappropriated) traces the erratic and sometimes paradoxical counter-history of the contestation of artistic institutions.

From the first anti-exhibition to the first catalogue retracing the history of Closed Exhibitions, from Dada to Noise music, from ‘Everything is Art’ to NO!art, the Japanese avant-gardes to Lettrist cinema, and not forgetting such major protest figures as Gustav Metzger, Henry Flynt, Graciela Carnevale, and Lydia Lunch, The Anti-Museum sketches a polyphonic panorama where negation is accompanied by a powerful breath of life.

This encyclopedic tome includes the work of over 80 artists and writers including Marcel Broodthaers, Maurizio Cattelan, Maria Eichhorn, Robert Smithson, Jean Tinguely, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Yvonne Rainer, Guillaume Apollinaire, Kenneth Goldsmith, George Maciunas, and Bob Nickas.

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: John Armleder Robert Barry Genesis P-Orridge Andrea Branzi Piero Gilardi Kenneth Goldsmith Robert Morris Jean Toche Ettore Sottsass Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Henry Flynt Mierle Laderman Ukeles Marcel Broodthaers Yvonne Rainer Maurizio Cattelan Maria Eichhorn Robert Smithson Jean Tinguely Rirkrit Tiravanija Gustav Metzger Graciela Carnevale Lydia Lunch Zach Blas Johannes Cladders Beatriz Colomina Henry Flynt Kenneth Goldsmith Krist Gruijthuijsen Robert Morris Bob Nickas Sören Schmeling Reiko Tomii Jon Hendricks Jean Toche Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Allan Wallach Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Mathieu Copeland Balthazar Lovay Marcel Broodthaers George Maciunas Guillaume Apollinaire Koenig Books / London Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Art Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Curatorial Dada Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Painting Film / Video

Archive of Dreams: Surrealist Impulses, Networks, and Vision

2024, English
Softcover, 328 pages, 21 x 28 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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The book Archive of Dreams is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name that will open the Archiv der Avantgarden. Marking the hundredth anniversary of the first surrealist manifesto and the founding of the Bureau of Surrealist Research in Paris in 1924, the volume is dedicated to the surrealist movement as well as the networks it engendered and the artistic stimuli it provided in the twentieth century. The idea was for the Bureau to collect dream testimonies in whatever form, not only to preserve and analyse them but also to give active expression to them in artistic processes. The publication shows how the practices of the avantgardes blurred the boundaries between dream and reality, between the traditional, passive notion of the archive and the idea of active, innovative artistic experiment — and thus ultimately also between the past, the present, and possible futures.

Works and documents from the period before, during, and after the Second World War shed light on the working methods of international artists and the global network they were involved in. They are complemented by diverse reflections on global protest movements and the traumas of war, thus connecting, too, to everyday experiences in a Europe beset by warfare.

File under: Salvador Dalí Max Ernst Marcel Duchamp Hans Bellmer Yves Tanguy Man Ray Unica Zürn Toyen Kurt Seligmann Carolee Schneeman Carolee Schneemann René Magritte Alexander Calder Diego Giacometti Leonora Carrington Egidio Marzona Marion Ackermann Rudolf Fischer Przemysław Strożek Friederike Fast David Wittinghofer Author Erin McClenathan Kristoffer Noheden Sven Spieker Abigail Susik David Wittinghofer Georges Bataille Marcel Duchamp André Breton Guillaume Apollinaire Michel Leiris Louis Aragon Spector Books / Leipzig Surrealism Dada Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Érotique du Surréalisme
by Robert Benayoun

1965, French
Hardcover (clothbound), 244 pages, 18 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Jean-Jacques Pauvert / Paris

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First 1965 clothbound edition of Érotique du Surréalisme, Robert Benayoun's study on the importance of the erotic in the surrealist arts, from L'Androgyne to The Sadist, Le Femme-Enfant to the Poetic Machine, surveying Symbolist and Art Brut precursors, and encompassing the multitude manifestations of eroticism across a broad array of visual and poetic works from the surrealist spectrum, even into the influence in film (a field Benayoun was known in). Reproducing poems and quotes throughout, this heavily illustrated volume reproduces many artworks in b/w and colour plates, including works and works by Max Walter Svanberg, Toyen, Hans Bellmer, Friedrich Schröder Sonnenstern, Heinrich Anton Müller, Marcel Duchamp, Jindřich Štyrský, Brancusi, Victor Brauner, Mimi Parent, Andre Masson, Louis Aragon, Yves Tanguy, Valentine Hugo, Jean Arp, Max Ernst, Balthus, Rene Magritte, André Breton, Giorgio de Chirico, Henry Fuseli, Dali, Man Ray, Henri Rousseau, Picasso, Miro, Edvard Munch, William Blake, Hieronymus Bosch, Ingrid Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Konrad Klapheck, Francis Picabia, Óscar Domínguez, Jean Benoit, Paul Delvaux, Pierre Molinier, and many more.

Good—Very Good copy with light tanning to spine and general tanning/light wear.

File under: André Breton Louis Aragon Joyce Mansour Hans Bellmer Salvador Dali Robert Benayoun Guillaume Apollinaire Jean-Jacques Pauvert / Paris Eros Fetishism / BDSM Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Poetry Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Surrealism Dada Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Drawing Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle

Yaso No. 5
Special Feature : Corpse

1982/1992, Japanese
Softcover, 192 pages, 21 x 14.5 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo

$60.00 - Out of stock

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"Corpse" Special Feature Issue of cult Japanese underground magazine Yaso, first published in 1982, then re-printed in 1992, edited by Yuichi Konno and Atelier Peyotl (publishers of Night Vision/Yaso/Peyotl/Wave/Silvester Club...). Heavily illustrated with texts in Japanese that look at the theme of death and the dead in the arts, literature, occultism, ancient sciences, philosophy, mythology, poetry, film, crime, and much more. Features John Duncan, Tetsumi Kudo, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Masahisa Fukase, Franz Kafka, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Guillaume Apollinaire, Joe Potts (LAFMS), Takashi Ishii, Rudolf II — Holy Roman Emperor, Akinari Ueda, Marcel Duchamp, Chris Burden, Paul Celan, Alain Resnais, Gilyak Amagasaki, Shusaku Arakawa, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Shuji Terayama, Andy Warhol, Charles Manson, Brian Wilson, Kyoko Endoh, Princess Yongtai, Salvador Dalí, Ono no Komachi, Kiyoshi Kasai, Caravaggio, Throbbing Gristle, Takizawa Bakin, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Manson Family, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Wu Zetian, Genesis P-Orridge, Yusuke Nakahara, Ranpo Lagrange, Mitsusada Fukasaku, Nakai Hideo, Richard Wagner, and many more.

Very Good copy.

File under: Chris Burden Alain Resnais Gilyak Amagasaki Shusaku Arakawa Andy Warhol Brian Wilson Kyoko Endoh John Duncan Tetsumi Kudo Cosey Fanni Tutti Joe Potts (LAFMS) Takashi Ishii Salvador Dali Caravaggio Throbbing Gristle Marcel Duchamp Masahisa Fukase Shuji Terayama Franz Kafka Guillaume Apollinaire Ono no Komachi Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Akinari Ueda Kiyoshi Kasai Takizawa Bakin Paul Celan Yusuke Nakahara Fyodor Dostoevsky Ranpo Lagrange Mitsusada Fukasaku Nakai Hideo Atelier Peyotl / Tokyo Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Crime / Violence Film / Video Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Fiction / Poetry Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Art Counterculture Eros Fetishism / BDSM Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Theory / Essay

Les Onze Mille Verges or : the Amorous Adventures of Prince Mony Vibescu
by Guillaume Apollinaire

1976, English
Softcover, 127 pages, 21.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Peter Owen Ltd. / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Out-of-print 1976 Peter Owen English edition of Guillaume Apollinaire's pornographic classic, Les Onze Mille Verges or : the Amorous Adventures of Prince Mony Vibescu, admired by Louis Aragon, Robert Desnos and Pablo Picasso, who dubbed the novel Apollinaire's masterpiece.

In 1907 Guillaume Apollinaire, one of the most original and influential poets of the twentieth century, turned his hand to the novel. He produced two books for the clandestine market. The finer of these was Les Onze Mille Verges. One of the most masterful and hilarious erotic novels of all time, it was once owlishly pronounced by Picasso to be Apollinaire's masterpiece. For nearly seventy years this novel remained a legend. In 1973 the definitive version was published in France, on which edition The Times Literary Supplement commented: "The rutting is non-stop. Who else would have turned a twosome into a foursome by the arrival of two randy burglars? Even when turning his hand to a dirty novel, Apollinaire was very much Apollinaire." "Apollinaire's celebrated erotic novel... [is] an honest spirited porn job."—Julian Barnes, New Statesman "Apollinaire sent up the French literary world in this pornographic novel. Nina Rootes gets the breezy sparkle of the original."—Gabriele Annan, The Times Literary Supplement "It will be difficult to deny the work its status as serious literature. Peter Owen are to be congratulated on an enterprising piece of publishing, further distinguished by a vigorous and highly readable translation."—S.J. Lockerbie, The Times Educational Supplement

Les Onze Mille Verges tells the fictional story of the Romanian hospodar Prince Mony Vibescu, in which Apollinaire explores all aspects of sexuality: sadism alternates with masochism; ondinism / scatophilia with vampirism; pedophilia with gerontophilia; masturbation with group sex; lesbianism with male homosexuality. The writing is alert, fresh and concrete, humour is always present, and the entire novel exudes an "infernal joy", which finds its apotheosis in the final scene.

Translated from the French by Nina Rootes. Introduction by Richard Coe, former Professor of French Literature at the University of Warwick. With a drawing of Apollinaire by Irène Lagut.

Very Good copy, light wear/age.

File under: Irène Lagut Guillaume Apollinaire Nina Rootes Richard Coe Peter Owen Ltd. / London Surrealism Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Eros Fetishism / BDSM

Apollinaire — Selected Poems
by Guillaume Apollinaire

1996, Englis / French
Softcover, 176 pages, 21.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Anvil Press Poetry / London

$25.00 - Out of stock

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Out-of-print 1976 Anvil Press Poetry collection of poetry by Guillaume Apollinaire (1880—1918), one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and forefather of Surrealism. In bi-lingual French-English.

Apollinaire's poetry reflects the heady years of artistic and intellectual ferment before the First World War. The most dynamic modernist French poet, he is remembered as much for his more traditional lyric poems as for the typographical experiments of his 'calligrammes'. Apollinaire championed the Cubist painters, and his poetry is a literary counterpart to their innovative work. Subtle and complex, yet often direct, his poetry is still fresh, sharp and memorable.

Oliver Bernard's selection provides a representative cross-section of his poetry, while concentrating on his most famous collection, Alcools (1913). This is a revised and expanded edition of his 1965 Penguin selection, of which Edward Lucie-Smith wrote, "If the value of really inspired translation needs any stressing, Oliver Bernard's Apollinaire is there to prove the case. The French poet and his English interpreter are wonderfully well-matched." Christopher Ricks commented in the New Statesman that "Oliver Bernard's translations from Apollinaire are immediately engaging in their vividness and humour."

GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE was born in Rome in 1880. Educated in Monaco and Nice, he became a French citizen only in 1916, after service in the artillery and infantry. He was badly wounded in the head in 1916, and died during the Paris flu epidemic in 1918. As prose writer and art critic as well as poet, Apollinaire was the moving spirit of French modernism.

OLIVER BERNARD has published three collections of poetry, most recently Poems (Samizdat, 1983) and Five Peace Poems (Five Seasons Press, 1985). His edition of Rimbaud's poetry is published by Penguin. He has lived in Norfolk for the past twenty years.

Fine copy.

File under: Guillaume Apollinaire Oliver Bernard Anvil Press Poetry / London Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry

la cote d’azur d’azur d’azur d’azur
Agnès Varda

1961, French
Hardcover, 144 pages, 22.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Editions du Tempes / Paris

$200.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this wonderful, very scarce, delicate photobook by French film director Agnès Varda. Following Varda’s short documentary film ‘Du côté de la côte’ in 1958, this unique hardcover book comprises Varda's own photographs, film stills, texts (including quotes from Giradoux, Nietzsche, Dante, Zola, Colette, Apollinaire, and Flaubert) and found archival/historical material of the French Riviera (or Côte d'Azur) - the Mediterranean coast of southeastern France. This charming travelog photo album feels somewhat like a successor to her friend Chris Marker’s wonderful ‘Petite Planète’ series of travel guides from around the same time and perfectly reflects Varda's poignant social commentary and humour through documentary.

Very good copy of this beautiful book (light corner bumping, fragile cloth binding - most copies of this book have detached and lost pages, this copy is still intact but with some looseness and must be handled carefully).

Agnès Varda is a French film director, born in Belgium, who has spent most of her working life in France. Her films, photographs, and art exhibitions focus on documentary realism, feminist issues, and social commentary with a distinctive experimental style. Film historians have cited Varda's work as central to the development of the French New Wave film movement; her uses of location shooting and non-professional actors were unconventional in the context of 1950s French cinema.

File under: Agnès Varda Gustave Flaubert Friedrich Nietzsche Jean Giraudoux Guillaume Apollinaire Dante Colette Gustave Flaubert Editions du Tempes / Paris Film / Video Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Inventory : Essays
by Michel Butor

1970, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 320 pages, 20 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Jonathan Cape / London

$80.00 - Out of stock

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First 1970 hardcover Jonathan Cape English edition of Michel Butor's Inventory, a selection from Butor's writings, edited and with a foreword by Richard Howard.

"Michel Butor, author of three celebrated novels - A Change of Heart, Passing Time and Degrees - is, with Alain Robbe-Grillet and Nathalie Sarraute, a leader of the revolutionary literary movement, the French 'new novel'. He is also, as he displayed in Histoire Extraordinaire: Essays on a Dream of Baudelaire's, a brilliant and original critic and essayist. Richard Howard, critic, poet and the outstanding translator of modern French writers, has made a selection from Butor's writings that reveals the uncommon depth and scope of his critical accomplishment. An important group of theoretical essays on the aesthetics of the novel is followed by essays on classic French writers such as Balzac, Chateaubriand, Verne, Proust and Apollinaire. A discussion of fairy tales and science fiction as literary genres meriting serious critical thought precedes essays on modern art - the work of Mondrian, Pollock and Rothko - and on modern music as created by Stravinsky, Schönberg and Boulez. In every essay, Butor writes with an intensity, intellect and imagination that make Inventory one of the most valuable collections of critical writings to appear in this country in recent years."—Jacket

Michel Butor (1926—2016) was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator, and one of the leading exponents of the nouveau roman (“new novel”) alongside Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Nathalie Sarraute, an avant-garde literary movement that emerged in France in the 1950s.

Very Good copy, light wear and tear to VG dust jacket.

File under: Piet Mondrian Jackson Pollock Mark Rothko Arnold Schönberg Igor Stravinsky Pierre Boulez Michel Butor Richard Howard Honoré de Balzac Guillaume Apollinaire Marcel Proust Jules Verne Jonathan Cape / London Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Theory / Essay Art Painting Sound / Music

Die Philosphie im Boudoir (Philosophy In The Boudoir)
by Marquis de Sade; illustrated by Sibylle Ruppert

1980, German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 362 pages, 24.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Manfred Pawlak / Herrsching

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First edition of the deluxe, over-sized 1980 hardcover German re-print of The Philosophy in the Boudoir by Marquis de Sade (1740—1814), illustrated by Sibylle Ruppert (1942—2011), introduction by Guillaume Apollinaire and afterword by Jacques Lacan, published by Manfred Pawlak, Herrsching. German language.

Philosophy In The Boudoir (La philosophie dans le boudoir, 1795), is the most concise, representative text of all the Marquis de Sade's works, containing his notorious doctrine of libertinage expounded in full, coupled with liberal doses of savage, unbridled eroticism, cruelty and violent sexuality. The renegade philosophies put forward here would later rank among the cornerstones of Andre Breton's surrealist manifesto.

Though initially considered a work of pornography, La philosophie dans le boudoir has come to be considered a socio-political drama and perhaps the most representative of the Marquis de Sade's work and philosophy on religion and morality. Dedicated to "voluptuaries of all ages, of every sex", it tells of a young virgin ruthlessly stripped of virtue and schooled in the ways of sexual perversion and libertine philosophy. Continually throughout the work, Sade makes the argument that one must embrace atheism, reject society's beliefs about pleasure and pain, and further makes his argument that if any crime is committed while seeking pleasure, it cannot be condemned.

Very Good copy with VG dust jacket. Tanning to page edges.

File under: Sibylle Ruppert The Marquis de Sade Guillaume Apollinaire Jacques Lacan Manfred Pawlak / Herrsching Philosophy Fiction / Poetry Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Drawing Surrealism Theory / Essay Eros Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Le Sang et La Rose No. 1, 1968

1968, Japanese / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 1 (1968) sets the scene perfectly, opening with Japanese author Yukio Mishima depicted as Saint Sebastian by photographer Kishin Shinoyama in a pictorial feature "Les Morts Masculines", a photographic homage to Georges Bataille that also features the photography of Eikoh Hosoe, Ikkō Narahara, Masahisa Fukase, and Osamu Hayasaki, with models including Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, actor Akira Mita, author Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, actor Jin Nakayama, playwright Jūrō Kara, and others. Other features include " All Japanese are Perverse" — stories by Japanese writers including Yukio Mishima, Taruho Inagaki, Yutaka Haniya, Shinji Sōya; Henry Miller's letters to Anais Nin; a colour gallery of artwork by Belgian painter Paul Delvaux; articles on Vampire fantasy in the arts (including many original illustrations; Witches (illustrated by James Ensor); Oriental Eros, Ancient Indian poetry; Kama Sutra; female bi-sexuality; the history of gay (Danshoku) theatre in Japan; the full-colour art gallery "Masturbation Machine", featuring avant-garde artists Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Masuo Ikeda, Setsu Nagasawa, Carlos Marchioli, Kuniyoshi Kaneko, Masakazu Horiuchi, Tadanori Yokoo, Koji Suzuki, Tommy Ungerer; the fully illustrated museum supplement "Pain and Pleasure : On Torture" by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa with artworks throughout history; pornographic stories by Guillaume Apollinaire and Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (who coined the term "Pornographer"); fiction by Pierre Morion (pseudo. André Pieyre de Mandiargues); critic Jin'ichi Uekusa on the controversial writings of Roger Peyrefitte, illustrations by Ernst, Bellmer, Labisse, Fini, Lam, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Good copy with some spine damage and tanning/wear.

File under: Max Ernst Léonor Fini Felix Labisse Wilfredo Lam Hans Bellmer Paul Delvaux Natsuyuki Nakanishi Masuo Ikeda Setsu Nagasawa Carlos Marchioli Kuniyoshi Kaneko Masakazu Horiuchi Tadanori Yokoo Koji Suzuki Tommy Ungerer Tatsumi Hijikata Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Eikoh Hosoe Ikkō Narahara Masahisa Fukase Osamu Hayasaki Kishin Shinoyama James Ensor Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Jin'ichi Uekusa Roger Peyrefitte Yukio Mishima Taruho Inagaki Yutaka Haniya Shinji Sōya Henry Miller Suehiro Tanemura Guillaume Apollinaire Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne Jūrō Kara Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Fiction / Poetry Japanese Photography Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Photography Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

DADA
By Kenneth Coutts-Smith

1970, English
Softcover, 168 pages, 18.5 x 12.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Studio Vista / London E P Dutton / New York

$30.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the Dada volume of Studio Vista / Dutton's great paperback series. Published in 1970 and written by Kenneth Coutts-Smith, this heavily illustrated overview spans Dada's activities via central locations and protagonists such as Picabia, Janco, Duchamp, Schwitters, Ernst, Grosz, Man Ray, Arp, etc.
Chapters : "Zürich - the beginning", "Anti-art and the irrational", "The roots of Dada", "New York - Duchamp and philosophical irony", "Berlin - political commitment", "Cologne - Ernst and the hallucinatory vision", "Hanover - Schwitters, freedom through lyricism", "Paris - last fling and obsequies", "Dada is dead-long live Dada", "Book list", "Index".

File under: Francis Picabia Al Hansen Robert Rauschenberg Gino Severini Kurt Schwitters Theo van Doesburg Max Ernst Johannes Theodor Baargeld George Grosz Raoul Hausmann John Heartfield Marcel Duchamp Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Man Ray Henri Chopin Marcel Janco Tristan Tzara El Lissitzky Ed Herring Richard Huelsenbeck Augusto Giacometti Guillaume Apollinaire Tristan Tzara Kenneth Coutts-Smith Studio Vista / London E P Dutton / New York Dada Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Painting Drawing

Broken Music

2019, English
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Ed. of 2500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

File under: Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Primary Information / New York Art Sound / Music Fluxus Conceptual Art Dada Arte Povera Counterculture Bauhaus Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Night Vision No. 13 (Surrealism)

1984, Japanese
Softcover, 224 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Night Vision / Japan

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First 1984 edition of cult Japanese underground magazine Night Vision, a special edition dedicated to Surrealism. Packed with content, including many important Surrealist texts translated to Japanese, this heavily illustrated book includes features on Hans Bellmer and Unica Zürn, Yves Tanguy, Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Belgian Surrealism, female Surrealist artists and poets (Remedios Varo, Mimi Parent, Valentine Penrose, Gisèle Prassinos, Dorothea Tanning, Bona de Mandiargues, Isabelle Walberg, Lise Deharme, Leonora Carrington, Dora Maar, Aube Elléouët, Jane Graverol, Nelly Kaplan (Belen), Joyce Mansour, Nora Mitrani, Unica Zürn, Valentine Hugo, Marianne Van Hirtum, Leonora Fini, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Kay Sage, Toyen, Annie Le Brun, Meret Oppenheim), Latin American Surrealism and Frida Kahlo-Diego Rivera, Surrealist literature and activities (Artaud, Picabia, Apollinaire, Bataille, Duchamp, Satie, Breton, etc.) plus much more, text contributions by Georges Bataille, Paul Eluard, Midori Wakakuwa, Kuniharu Akiyama, Takashi Tanyuya, Shigeo Goto, Takahiko Okada, Octavio Paz, André Breton, Kunio Iwaya, Gonzalo Cerorio, Yuichi Konno, Satoshi Takamura, and much more. Illustrated in b/w throughout (with many more artists than mentioned above) in that great Night Vision semi-fanzine/cheap reader quality.

Very Good - Fine copy.

File under: Remedios Varo Dorothea Tanning Leonora Carrington René Magritte Unica Zürn Hans Bellmer Erik Satie Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Francis Picabia Yves Tanguy Man Ray Victor Brauner Joan Miro Andre Masson Claude Cahun Salvador Dali Toyen Meret Oppenheim Bona (Bona de Mandiargues) Mimi Parent Valentine Penrose Gisèle Prassinos Isabelle Walberg Dora Maar Jane Graverol Valentine Hugo Kay Sage Aline Gagnaire Aube Elléouët Paul Eluard Octavio Paz Midori Wakakuwa Kuniharu Akiyama Takashi Tanyuya Shigeo Goto Takahiko Okada André Breton Kunio Iwaya Gonzalo Cerorio Yuichi Konno Satoshi Takamura Erik Satie Antonin Artaud Francis Picabia Guillaume Apollinaire Octabio Paz Valentine Penrose Gisèle Prassinos Lise Deharme Joyce Mansour Nora Mitrani Marianne Van Hirtum Annie Le Brun Georges Bataille Night Vision / Japan Photography Surrealism Dada Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Painting Fiction / Poetry Art Drawing

Le Surréalisme

2011, Japanese / French
Softcover (w. printed plastic jacket over reflective cover), 296 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by National Art Centre / Tokyo

$90.00 - Out of stock

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First printing of this great exhibition catalogue from the National Art Centre Tokyo via Centre Pompidou Paris, on occasion of the most comprehensive Surrealist exhibition ever staged in Japan, “Le Surrealism: Exposition organisee par Le Pompidou a partir de sa Collection” at The National Art Center, Tokyo in 2011.

Housed in mirrored cover and profusely illustrated in colour with the work of André Breton, Victor Brauner, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Andre Masson, Francis Picabia, Claude Cahun, Hans Bellmer, Dorothea Tanning, Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Toyen, Guilaume Apollinaire, Meret Oppenheim, Luis Buñuel, Jindrich Heisler, Andre Masson, Yves Tanguy, Alberto Giacometti, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, Giorgio de Chirico, Wilhelm Freddie, and many others, alongside comprehensive documentation of major historical Surrealist exhibitions and documents/publications.

Very Good copy.

File under: André Masson Dorothea Tanning Francis Picabia Giorgio de Chirico Hans Bellmer Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Joan Miro Luis Buñuel Man Ray Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Meret Oppenheim René Magritte Salvador Dalí Yves Tanguy Toyen Victor Brauner Jindrich Heisler Andre Masson Alberto Giacometti Claude Cahun Wilhelm Freddie Andre Breton Guillaume Apollinaire Benjamin Péret National Art Centre / Tokyo Art Dada Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Photography Poetry Surrealism Painting

The Heresiarch & Co
by Guillaume Apollinaire

2009, English
Softcover, 156 pages, 15 x 20.3 cm
Published by Exact Change / Boston

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A collection of outrageous short stories about heretics, renegade mystics and criminal religious fanatics, The Heresiarch & Co. was Apollinaire's first book, and reportedly remained his favorite. Making full use of his encyclopedic knowledge of obscure historical, ecclesiastical and geographic information, Apollinaire's stories rely neither on the dream nor on unlikely juxtaposition, but instead represent an approach that Andre Breton called a "formula" for Surrealism; its "music," Breton famously wrote, is "like gold pebbles rolled in a torrent." Apollinaire himself wrote of The Heresiarch & Co., "This is a book for those who love literature, powerful and disturbing, strange and logical... The author, amid so many fantastic, tragic and sometimes sublime inventions, intoxicates himself with a charming erudition with which he also intoxicates his readers."

Guillaume Apollinaire (26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish-Belarusian descent. Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. He is credited with coining the term "cubism" in 1911 to describe the emerging art movement and the term "surrealism" in 1917 to describe the works of Erik Satie. The term Orphism (1912) is also his. Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917), which became the basis for the 1947 opera Les mamelles de Tirésias. Apollinaire was active as a journalist and art critic, and in 1912 Apollinaire cofounded Les Soirées de Paris, an artistic and literary magazine. Two years after being wounded in World War I, Apollinaire died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918; he was 38.

Exact Change publishes books of experimental literature with an emphasis on Surrealism, Dada, Pataphysics, and other nineteenth and twentieth century avant-garde art movements. The press was founded in 1989 by Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang, known outside publishing as musicians from the bands Damon & Naomi, and Galaxie 500.

File under: Guillaume Apollinaire Exact Change / Boston Fiction / Poetry Surrealism

Sade: Sex and Death
The Divine Marquis And The Surrealists

2010, English
Softcover, 197 pages, 15 x 23 cm
Published by Solar Books / US

$44.00 - Out of stock

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The Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), best known for his violent, erotic novels, such as 120 Days of Sodom and Justine, was also one of the key inspirational figures identified by André Breton in his Surrealist Manifestos. De Sade’s importance to the Surrealists and their close affiliates is reflected in the sheer volume of art and writing dedicated to, or inspired by, his life, philosophy, and writings. Sade: Sex and Death documents this body of Surrealist work, including many key texts and bizarre and erotic images never before assembled in one volume.

Included in Sade are more than fifty rarely seen transgressive illustrations by some of the most famous names associated with Surrealism, including Dalí, Hans Bellmer, Magritte, André Masson, and Man Ray. The book also features analytical texts by writers of the period such as Bataille, Breton, Bunuel, Eluard, and Klossowski. Also included is the first-ever English translation of “The Divine Marquis” by Guillaume Apollinaire, which was the first modernist appraisal of Sade and remains one of the best concise biographies of its subject, and “Sade and the Roman Noir” by scholar Maurice Heine, in which Heine posits Sade as inventor of the gothic novel. Putting the works in context is an extensive history by editor Candice Black that details the relationship between the Surrealists and Sade.

File under: André Masson Clovis Trouille Felix Labisse Hans Bellmer Leonor Fini Luis Buñuel Man Ray Maurice Heine Max Ernst Pierre Klossowski René Magritte Robert Desnos Roberto Matta Salvador Dalí Toyen Valentine Hugo Andre Breton André Masson Georges Bataille Guillaume Apollinaire Maurice Heine Paul Eluard Pierre Klossowski The Marquis de Sade Solar Books / US Art Eros Fiction / Poetry Poetry Surrealism Theory / Essay

Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire
by Guillaume Apollinaire

1982, English / French
Softcover, 284 pages, 13.2 x 20.3 cm
Published by New Directions / New York

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When Guillaume Apollinaire died in 1918 at the age of thirty-eight, as the result of a war wound, he was already known as one of the most original and important poets of his time. He had led the migration of Bohemian Paris across the city from Montmartre to Montparnasse; he had helped formulate the principles of Cubism, having written one of the first books on the subject, and coined the word "Surrealist"; and he had demonstrated in his own work those innovations we have come to associate with the most vital investigations of the avant-garde.

This bilingual, illustrated edition of The Selected Writings of Apollinaire, the only representative collection in English translation, begins with a comprehensive critical Introduction by the translator, Roger Shattuck. The next section is devoted to poetry. Included here are almost half of Apollinaire's two best-known volumes, Alcools and Calligrammes, as well as a selection from five other books, and the long love poem La Chanson du Mal-Aimé in its entirety. The prose section leads off with "L'Esprit Nouveau et les Poetes", a seminal discussion of modern poetry that anticipates such movements as Dada and Futurism. This is followed by Apollinaire's almost unobtainable "Introduction to Baudelaire and Oneirocriticism", an early experimental work composed in a style prophetic of Surrealist automatic writing. There are, in addition, two stories, a passage from Anecdotiques, and a section from the novel Le Poete Assassiné.

File under: Guillaume Apollinaire Roger Shattuck New Directions / New York Fiction / Poetry Surrealism

Pioneers of Modern Typography
By Herbert Spencer

1969, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 30 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Lund Humphries / London

$190.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the iconic, very collectible, "Pioneers of Modern Typography" - the bible/standard guide to the avant-garde origins of modern graphic design and typography since it's original publication in 1969. In this essential reference, Herbert Spencer shows how new concepts in graphic design in the early decades of the twentieth century had their roots in the artistic movements of the time in painting, poetry, and architecture. Spencer examines the "heroic" period of modern design and typography, the beginning of which he traces to the publication in Le Figaro of the Italian artist Marinetti's Futurist manifesto. He discusses the work of such "pioneers" as El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. He examines the artistic background of the new concepts in graphic design, and traces the influences of futurism, Dadaism, de Stijl, suprematism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus. His text is profusely illustrated with examples of the new typography, shown in genres that range from posters and magazine covers to Apollinaire's "figurative poetry." Spencer chose a wide variety of paper stocks for individual signatures, giving each spotlighted designer a unique look. The engravings and spot colour work match the super sharp design if the book, with many of the works printed in 4 colours. The printing of this first Lund Humphries edition far surpasses any of the MIT reprints that followed.

Features the work of : El Lissitzky, Theo van Doesburg, Kurt Schwitters, H. N. Werkman, Piet Zwart, Paul Schuitema, Alexander Rodchenko, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, Jan Tschichold, Guillame Apollinaire, Max Bill, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Henryk Berlewi, Lewis Carroll, Walter Dexel, Lionel Feininger, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Hannah Hoch, Vilmos Huszar, Iliazd, Johannes Itten, Oscar Jespers, Lajos Kassak, Senkin Klutisis, Fernand Leger, Wyndham Lewis, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Christian Morgenstern, Paul van Ostaijen, Jozef Peeters, Enrico Pramolini, Man Ray, Peter Rohl, Pietro Saga, Christian Schad, Joost Schmidt, Ardengo Soffici, Kate Steinitz, Wladyslaw Strzeminski, Ladislav Sutnar, Mieczyslaw Szczuka, Karel Tiege, Lucio Venna, Teresa Zarnower.

Very Good-Fine copy in Very Good original dust jacket, preserved under plastic sleeve.

File under: El Lissitzky Theo van Doesburg Kurt Schwitters H. N. Werkman Piet Zwart Paul Schuitema Alexander Rodchenko László Moholy-Nagy Herbert Bayer Jan Tschichold Max Bill Alvin Langdon Coburn Henryk Berlewi Lewis Carroll Walter Dexel Raoul Hausmann John Heartfield Hannah Hoch Vilmos Huszár Iliazd Johannes Itten Oscar Jespers Lajos Kassak Senkin Klutisis Fernand Leger Wyndham Lewis Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Christian Morgenstern Paul van Ostaijen Jozef Peeters Man Ray Peter Rohl Pietro Saga Christian Schad Joost Schmidt Ardengo Soffici Kate Steinitz Wladyslaw Strzeminski Ladislav Sutnar Mieczyslaw Szczuka Karel Tiege Lucio Venna Teresa Zarnower Lyonel Feininger Enrico Prampolini Guillaume Apollinaire Lund Humphries / London Art Bauhaus Graphic Design / Typography Dada Out-of-print / Rare Poetry Theory / Essay